Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in the Classroom (International Perspectives on Reading Assessment)

✍ Scribed by Martin Coles

Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 200
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This second book focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Assessing reading: changing practice......Page 18
Developing an early literacy portfolio for district-wide use......Page 25
Taking a closer look at reading: a Scottish perspective......Page 42
Teachers changing the system: alternative assessment of first-graders' literacy......Page 57
Literacy assessment as part of new standards......Page 71
Responsive assessment of reading: seeking evidence on reading attainment from students......Page 118
The literacy profile of Maxwell Pogonowski......Page 140
Assessing older students' response to fiction: classroom-based activity to support system-wide assessment......Page 159
Reading while writing: an approach to the assessment of reading through discussions of the drafting process......Page 173
Assessing literacy and special needs in secondary schools: a case for new paradigms......Page 188
Index......Page 198

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